Bøger af Rod Stephens

A concise introduction to database design concepts, methods, and techniques in and out of the cloudIn the newly revised second edition of Beginning Database Design Solutions: Understanding and Implementing Database Design Concepts for the Cloud and Beyond, Second Edition, award-winning programming instructor and mathematician Rod Stephens delivers an easy-to-understand guide to designing and implementing databases both in and out of the cloud. Without assuming any prior database design knowledge, the author walks you through the steps you'll need to take to understand, analyze, design, and build databases.In the book, you'll find clear coverage of foundational database concepts along with hands-on examples that help you practice important techniques so you can apply them to your own database designs, as well as:* Downloadable source code that illustrates the concepts discussed in the book* Best practices for reliable, platform-agnostic database design* Strategies for digital transformation driven by universally accessible database designAn essential resource for database administrators, data management specialists, and database developers seeking expertise in relational, NoSQL, and hybrid database design both in and out of the cloud, Beginning Database Design Solutions is a hands-on guide ideal for students and practicing professionals alike.

The 100 most popular examples on the CSharpHelper.com web site. These examples demonstrate useful and interesting tips, tricks, and advanced techniques for C# programmers.

Job Candidates and Puzzle Enthusiasts Whether you're applying for a programming job or a position on Wall Street, interview puzzles are the norm at many high-tech companies. This book explains how to solve more than 200 of the hardest and most common interview puzzles in use. Interview Puzzles Dissected: + Shows how to solve more than 200 challenging interview puzzles + Reveals underlying techniques that let you solve problems that you haven't seen before + Tells how you can show the interviewer that you can think in an organized fashion + Explains how to get "partial credit" when all else fails and you just can't solve a puzzle + Includes programming challenges to give you a deeper understanding of puzzles (obviously only if you're a programmer) Interviewers When used incorrectly an interview puzzle tells you little more than whether the job candidate has seen the puzzle before. This book explains new techniques that you can use to get a better understanding of the candidate's capabilities and answer that all-important question, "Is this someone my team can work with effectively?" Interview Puzzles Dissected: + Tells how to discover the ways that a candidate analyzes and solves complex problems + Describes variations and follow-up questions that you can use to see if the candidate truly understands a puzzle and hasn't simply seen it before + Explains techniques for creating new, challenging puzzles + Shows how you can solve puzzles together to further understand a candidate's thought processes and to decide whether the candidate can work in a group Interview Puzzles Dissected not only shows you how to solve the puzzles, it explains why the solutions work. It exposes the underlying principles that you can use to solve similar puzzles and to invent new puzzles and variations of your own. This book will give you the tools you need to get the most out of interviews both as an interviewer and as a job candidate.

In recent years, the C# and .Net ecosystem has grown so explosively that it's nearly impossible to keep up. This collection of programming challenges helps you explore some of the less-traveled byways of programming concepts in general and C# in particular.

A friendly introduction to the most useful algorithms written in simple, intuitive EnglishThe revised and updated second edition of Essential Algorithms, offers an accessible introduction to computer algorithms. The book contains a description of important classical algorithms and explains when each is appropriate. The author shows how to analyze algorithms in order to understand their behavior and teaches techniques that the can be used to create new algorithms to meet future needs. The text includes useful algorithms such as: methods for manipulating common data structures, advanced data structures, network algorithms, and numerical algorithms. It also offers a variety of general problem-solving techniques.In addition to describing algorithms and approaches, the author offers details on how to analyze the performance of algorithms. The book is filled with exercises that can be used to explore ways to modify the algorithms in order to apply them to new situations. This updated edition of Essential Algorithms:* Contains explanations of algorithms in simple terms, rather than complicated math* Steps through powerful algorithms that can be used to solve difficult programming problems* Helps prepare for programming job interviews that typically include algorithmic questions* Offers methods can be applied to any programming language* Includes exercises and solutions useful to both professionals and students* Provides code examples updated and written in Python and C#Essential Algorithms has been updated and revised and offers professionals and students a hands-on guide to analyzing algorithms as well as the techniques and applications. The book also includes a collection of questions that may appear in a job interview. The book's website will include reference implementations in Python and C# (which can be easily applied to Java and C++).

By using the same back-end macro programming language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Microsoft Office applications allow users to easily transfer their VBA programming skills from one Office product to another. A developer skilled at using VBA to program Access can quickly learn to program Word or Excel. Better still, VBA is a fairly complete subset of Visual Basic (VB). That means a VB developer already knows how to use VBA, and a VBA programmer knows a lot about VB.Author Rod Stephens gives you the most valuable information possible as quickly as possible without rehashing the trivial VB and VBA details you already can recite in your sleep. In Microsoft Office Programming: A Guide for Experienced Developers, Stephens skips the tiresome explanations of variable declarations and dives right into serious Office programming topics, such as automatically customizing menus and toolbars with VBA, making Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) do your work for you, and using ADO to manipulate data in an Access database.

A perfectly crafted prep guide that prepares you for the MCSD 70-483 The MCSD 70-483 exam is the entry-level Microsoft certification exam for C# developers and this must-have resource offers essential coverage of the exam that will test your competency in C# programming.

All the tools you need to create the full range of Visual Basic(r) color graphics applications Expert Rod Stephens provides you with everything you need to add advanced graphics to your applications in this in-depth introduction to graphic programming with Microsoft Visual Basic.